Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over the Mergenthaler books. If Mergenthaler is in the red, the company takes...
Little boys are supposedly made of snaps & snails & puppy dog tails. Worse were the ingredients found by Federal inspectors in cheap candy made at the Brooklyn factory of Victor A. Bonomo and sold at goody counters to moppets of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut...
...wonders of the East is Connecticut's $25,000,000 Merritt Parkway, 32 miles (two lanes each way) of satinsmooth express motor roads winding through manicured countryside back of coastal towns from Stratford (near Bridgeport) to the New York line. Another wonder of the East, but for the omission of a compulsory clause in a recent Connecticut law, would have been the water closets in all Connecticut public buildings. That such wonders should have had graft attached to them was last week cause for grief and headlines in the thrifty State of Connecticut...
Writing to Robert 10. Lane '39, of new York City, chairman of the Harvard committee, President Roosevelt asserted that he was "deeply interested" in the Harvard plans to provide scholarships and support for German refugees "of all creeds...